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Digging up delights
In a garden, any day can be a
surprise party. Look closely
among the leaves, along the
paths and little quirks reveal
themselves.
In honor of the 25th anniver-
sary of the San Antonio Botanical
Garden, we poked around the 33
acres and harvested a delight for
each year. Horticulturist Paul Cox,
who’s been at the garden from
the construction phase and is
now the top guy there, and Can-
dace Andrews, managing director
of the San Antonio Botanical So-
ciety, shared insights in the
search.
Here’s what we found, starting
at the entrance and circling
through the grounds counter-
clockwise.
Sullivan Carriage
1
House
Designed by archi-
tect Alfred Giles and
built in 1896, the car-
riage house was
moved stone by stone to the gar-
dens in 1987. Now, visitors enter
through the former coach house
and stables. Guests can dine in
the former horse stalls of the Car-
riage House Kitchen.
Pot man
The terra cotta
2 guy’s ready for sum-
mer in his flip-flops,
but don’t be surprised
to see him decked
out for football season or show-
ing Spurs spirit.
Wisteria arbor
Perfect for ‘I do’s,’
3 especially when it’s
dripping with fragrant
purple blooms in
spring.
Hoja santa
Amid the many tex-
4 tures and scents of the
Garden for the Blind is
the hoja santa. Tear
off a bit of a large
heart-shaped leaf and take a
whiff of the root beer fragrance.
Free pass
The San Antonio
5 Garden Center picks
up the admission tab
for blind guests.
Turtle rock
The stone turtle,
6 really a cluster of
stones, looks as if he’s
climbing out of the
pond in Kumamoto
En.
Ants in the plants
Tucked among the
7 exotic plants in the Ex-
hibition Room of the
conservatory are
plants that play host
to ants, some of them quite ag-
gressive defenders of the flora.
Don’t worry. Only the plants are
on display.
Cake, music to mark Botanical Garden’s birthday
A birthday bash spread over
two days and more than 30 acres
is quite a party. And Viva Botan-
ica is quite a party.
The festival this year marks
the 25th anniversary of the San
Antonio Botanical Garden. Yes,
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Clockwise from top right:
Turtle rock in Kumamoto En Gar-
den; cupola on the Sullivan Car-
riage House; kapok tree in the
Lucile Halsell Conservatory; a mal-
low hibiscus; the seed of the coco
de mer, aka monkey butt; a jas-
mine-shrouded arbor shades the
entrance to a cottage on Water-
saver Lane; fence bordering the
Japanese garden.
Alien flora
With its long strap-
8 like leaves, the Wel-
witschia in the Helen
Kleberg Desert Pavil-
ion looks like some-
thing from another planet. The
plant, native to the Namib Des-
ert, baffles even the botanists
who try to classify it.
Giant seed
It doesn’t take an
9 adolescent to see the
monkey butt in the gi-
ant seed in the Palm
and Cycad House, but
kids do love the spectacle. From
the 25-pound seed sprouts a coco
de mer.
Bird’s eye view
Follow the winding
10 path through the
palm house to a cat-
walk that gives a peek
at the treetops. The
idea for the walkway came from
the botanic garden conservatory
in Paris.
King of the jungle
The 8-foot-long
11 fronds on the angiop-
teris — or king fern —
make it hard to miss.
And it’s still growing.
This Australia native is primitive
among primitive ferns.
Right stuffing
The spiny trunk on
12 the kapok tree in the
conservatory courtyard
conceals the plant’s
softer side. Kapok
seeds yield cottonlike fiber that is
used to stuff everything from pil-
lows to life vests.
High point
The overlook, the
13 highest point inside
Loop 410, offers beau-
tiful panoramas of the
city.
Water works
14
Remnants of George
Brackenridge’s water
supply system from
the late 1800s remain
on the hill. The wall of
the former holding tank now
borders the amphitheater.
Little sprouts
Youngsters spend
15 Saturday mornings
tending vegetable
plots under the tutel-
age of experienced
gardeners. A bonus: They eat
their veggies.
16
Going
batty
For-
merly on
top of
the hill,
the ga-
zebo is patterned after a bat
house because the city used to be
an epicenter of the bat popula-
tion.
there will be cake for the silver
anniversary.
The celebration runs from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and
Sunday at the garden, 555 Fun-
ston Place.
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The Lucile Halsell Conservatory soars above the Botanical Garden.
Ducky
The fowl at the East
17 Texas Lake appreciate
handouts. Birders ap-
preciate the variety of
waterfowl and other birds
throughout the gardens.
Sit a spell
The inviting porch
18 on the East Texas Log
Cabin overlooks the
lake.
Madrone
A lone madrone
19 survived floods in
1987 that claimed
ing to bloom.
others. The hardy na-
tive specimen is start-
Schumacher House
The recently refur-
20 bished cottage, origi-
nally built in Freder-
icksburg in 1849,
shows the evolution
of German building styles.
Mini ’scapes
A stroll down Wa-
21 tersaver Lane gives a
glimpse at a half-doz-
en landscape styles
that illustrate the di-
verse possibilities with plants
suited to the area. Take a close
look at the recycled glass walk-
way in the cottage garden. What
sparkle.
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Making
magic
Toiling be-
hind the
scenes in
greenhouses and trial gardens is
Ying Doon Moy, the brilliant re-
search horticulturist behind a
number of papayas, gingers, roses
and hibiscuses bred for South
Texas.
$4 for children ages 3 to 13.
Gardeners will find a variety
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herbs, orchids, day lilies, cac-
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BY MARY BETH BRECKENRIDGE making a trial grouping on the
wall using photocopies of the
KNIGHT RIDDER
Displaying a collection of fam-
pictures in their frames and at-
taching them with low-tack
ily photographs on your walls painter’s tape. It’s helpful to
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Bubbling over
The symbol-stuffed
ing wide mats in a neutral
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Now comes the creative part:
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